Bridging cultural gaps: Promoting interdisciplinary studies in human cultural evolution

by Oren Kolodny, Marcus W Feldman & Nicole Creanza

Within the blink of an eye on a geological timescale, humans advanced from using basic stone tools to studying the rocks on Mars; however, our exact evolutionary path and the relative importance of genetic and cultural evolution remain a mystery. Our cultural capacities—to create new ideas, to communicate and learn from one another, and to